Engineering Post Report
Transport and communication sectors play a pivotal role in the growth of the services sector as well as also in the overall economy of a country. Considering that well-developed infrastructure facilitates domestic commerce and international trade, there has been an enhanced focus on investment in these sectors..
For this very reason, modernization of infrastructure and regional connectivity has been a priority area of the federal government as envisaged in the Pakistan Vision 2025. The government has not only focused on increasing bilateral and multilateral cooperation in this area but also a significant part of the development portfolio was earmarked every year for investment in the sector.
According to the World Bank’s Logistic Performance Index (LPI) 2018, a measure of a country’s ease to move goods with speed and reliability, Pakistan ranked at 122nd position amongst 160 countries with other regional countries i.e. India and Bangladesh occupying 44th and 100th positions respectively. This showed that the country needed to upgrade its efforts to improve logistic services, transport and trade related infrastructure. Recent floods and ensuing damages to the communication facilities have posed serious challenges additionally and have also created an urgency for establishing a reliable and resilient infrastructure in the country in a planned and priority basis at the earliest possible. Laying emphasis on the significance of developing efficient transport and communication systems and highlighting the government’s efforts in realization of this pursuit,, a brief overview of the country’s air, road, rail maritime, postal and broadcasting networks will be presented separately as well as briefly on these pages in the months to follow, please.
